I actually hadn't noticed that the new edition wasn't the same as the original one. Lol!
I wonder if it's worth buying, though? I'd be interested to see what new content there is.
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I actually hadn't noticed that the new edition wasn't the same as the original one. Lol!
I wonder if it's worth buying, though? I'd be interested to see what new content there is.
I actually hadn't noticed that the new edition wasn't the same as the original one. Lol!
It looks like they;ve added some pages about Lando's version of the Falcon from Solo, which is enough for me to grab it eventually (and if they canged anything because of the new canon, I'll still have the old book).
From the previews I've seen they've kept a lot the same stuff from the old book, but re-written it where needed to fit with the changes in the new canon.
There is a bit text that says that not everything in the book might be about the Millennium Falcon as there was a loss of data during the transition between the Republic and the Empire.
Basically their scapegoat if future content contradicts the book.
There is a bit text that says that not everything in the book might be about the Millennium Falcon as there was a loss of data during the transition between the Republic and the Empire.
Basically their scapegoat if future content contradicts the book.
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Well, I'm fine with it in tech books. Less fine when I'll never get new stories about my favorite characters in normal books, although with SW I just accept it at this point (but as much as I enjoy the new movies, the Old EU will always be my favorite Star Wars).
The general rule does apply though. You have those books, those stories and those memories. Nothing will ever change that, even the lack of new stories.
You could find it at a book store and just do a quick skim.I'll have to think about it. I like the original version quite a bit, I'm just leery of buying an "updated" version with only a small bit of new content. I'll see.
So now that we've gotten Hayne's manuals for the Death Star and the Millennium Falcon, what other subjects from the GFFA would you like to see get this treatment?
Myself, I would love to see books done for fighters like the X-wing, and especially the Y-Wing models. Also, a Haynes book on astromech droids like R2 would be pretty cool - show us how all those different tools fit inside such a stubby little droid.
BTW: where is the Star Wars Tech fandom on the web? I mean for Trek we've got multiple web sites like Ex Astris Scientia and Journal of Treknology. Can anyone point me to any equivalent sites for SW?
Myself, I would love to see books done for fighters like the X-wing, and especially the Y-Wing models. Also, a Haynes book on astromech droids like R2 would be pretty cool - show us how all those different tools fit inside such a stubby little droid.
BTW: where is the Star Wars Tech fandom on the web? I mean for Trek we've got multiple web sites like Ex Astris Scientia and Journal of Treknology. Can anyone point me to any equivalent sites for SW?
An X-Wing one seems like the most obvious. I like the droid idea too.
Just received my copy today of Star Wars Alien Archive by Tim McDonagh. Have only had the change to thumb through it at this point, but it a very, very cool piece of work and I recommend it.
Side note: anymore Star Wars related reference books are much more well-done than most of the Trek related reference books I've been seeing. Why is that?
Side note: anymore Star Wars related reference books are much more well-done than most of the Trek related reference books I've been seeing. Why is that?
Lucas and Lucasfilm tend to have kept a lot of the props, and their teams tend to make up a lot of backstory for everything.
Star Trek tends to have a ton of writers and have the props are redesigned and reused a lot. Half the stuff doesn't get a backstory in the first place, its just there. There are a few hand fulls of people in Trek that do keep vast records of stuff they worked on and things like that, and a few have some fictional backstories of the thing in their heads, but the majority seem to be more about the backstory of the prop or item, rather than the in-universe story (leaving that to the writers). There use to be more of them, in the forms of technical manuals and the like in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. But I don't real all that many after that, with the Ships of the Line series of calendars badly needing to be made into a ship sourcebook sort of thing with orthos, backstories and technical details of all the ships used in it.
Star Trek tends to have a ton of writers and have the props are redesigned and reused a lot. Half the stuff doesn't get a backstory in the first place, its just there. There are a few hand fulls of people in Trek that do keep vast records of stuff they worked on and things like that, and a few have some fictional backstories of the thing in their heads, but the majority seem to be more about the backstory of the prop or item, rather than the in-universe story (leaving that to the writers). There use to be more of them, in the forms of technical manuals and the like in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. But I don't real all that many after that, with the Ships of the Line series of calendars badly needing to be made into a ship sourcebook sort of thing with orthos, backstories and technical details of all the ships used in it.
It's been that way for a long time now, at least 15 years. Star Wars pretty much surpassed Star Trek with the "Incredible Cross-Sections" series and "Visual Dictionaries" that were far more specific about actual things that happened in the films, rather than an encyclopedia of made up terms like Star Trek did for a while.
I think Star Wars did a better job tying in to on screen materials.
There was a Ships of the Line book, it featured the ship images and some text that gave them context. The Amazon page and copyright page say 2014, but I swear that was a second release and it originally came out earlier.
They did a Star Trek Visual Dictionary in the same style as the Star Wars ones a couple years ago.
David A. Goodman, the writer of the character autobiographies also wrote Federation: The First 150 Years.
Trek novelist Dayton Ward also wrote the Hidden Universe Travel Guides books for Vulcan and The Klingon Empire. I read these two, and they are a lot of fun. They are written as in universe travel guides, and used a combination of material from the shows, movies, books, and original content to give a nice picture of their topics.
They also did Haynes Manuals on the Enterprises and the Klingon Bird of Prey.
There are three Shipyards books, one covering Starfleet from 2151-2293, one covering 2294-"The future", and one covering the Klingons. The Klingon one doesn't come out until next May.
From a real world perspective there is The Star Trek Book, which gives a nice overview of entire franchise. Star Trek: Costumes, which explores the costumes from TOS up to the Kelvinverse movies.
There's more, but I'm gonna stop there for now.
Star Wars has a much larger fan base than Star Trek. Therefore, more people will buy the Star Wars books, meaning the publishers can throw more money into them.
Honestly, I've found that Star Trek often has better reference books. Their chronology is second to none and really put the Star Wars ones to shame. Same with the encyclopedia. The Federation: The First 150 Years "in-universe" book compared really well to what you'd get out of Star Wars.
That said, I do think Star Wars tends to be somewhat more consistent in quality (for all the good Star Trek books you get, there are some really bad ones, like that original Technical Manual that people swear by for some reason) and they can do canon reference material in a way Star Trek "can't."
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